Tesla was hit with a lawsuit brought by an ex-worker accused of racism

Tesla was hit with a lawsuit brought by an ex-worker accused of racism. 

SAN FRANCISCO: The former Tesla construction manager has filed a suit in the name of Tesla’s electric vehicle manufacturer. 

It says he was fired due to reporting numerous safety violations and race discrimination in Tesla’s production facilities.

In the suit filed with Alameda County Superior Court on Friday, Marc Cage, an African American, claimed to have reported safety issues that could have led to massive explosions at Tesla’s battery plant in Nevada and a series of failures by Tesla to reveal serious workplace injuries.

“Tesla’s commitments to unrealistic production goals and frantic efforts to ramp up its production, often to make good on rash promises, overrode any commitment to employee safety,” the complaint claims.

He also claimed it was because Tesla employees, in full knowledge of its leadership, targeted him and slammed him due to his race.

“Virtually every restroom in Tesla’s Fremont facility contained writings or carvings of racist symbols and slurs, including swastikas and prominent displays of the n-word,” Cage declared in his letter of complaint.

Tesla did not immediately reply to a request to comment regarding the lawsuit.

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A California state agency filed a lawsuit against Tesla due to allegations from Black employees that they were subjected to insults and drawings and being given one of the most challenging physical positions at the Tesla factory located in Fremont, California.

The lawsuit that Tesla declared “misguided” said the company was intolerant of racial discrimination and ad hoc claims in other lawsuits brought against the world’s largest and most valued automaker.

Tesla, along with its president, Elon Musk, has intensified their fight with regulators who have been scrutinizing his social media postings and the company’s management of its workers, and the testing of semi-automated driving systems for the public roads.

Musk on Tuesday said that of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of being a layered “corruption onion.” A few days earlier, Musk had accused the SEC of leaks related to a Tesla-related investigation.

Tesla announced earlier in the month that it received an order from the SEC concerning the company’s compliance to an agreement over the tweets of Musk regarding privatizing the company.

The company and Musk have accused the SEC that they were being harassed by launching an investigation to penalize Musk for being a vocal opponent of the government.